The Malacateco manager R. Gómez Gómez attacks this game with the team placed 5th so far. In the visitors dressing room Comunicaciones and their manager M. Tapia are in 1st place before this match.
Malacateco and Comunicaciones should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Malacateco form and stats
Only two Liga Nacional home games for Malacateco so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeat.
The home team returns to Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía after being equal after 90 minutes with Xelaju (placed 2nd) on their last time out; the Liga Nacional game ended 1-1. Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Antigua GFC.
Malacateco has scored 3 goals so far and conceded 3 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.
Comunicaciones form and stats
Comunicaciones, who have the most scored goals (8) in Liga Nacional, are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Liga Nacional, having played 2 games and collected 2 points (0 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses). Two points from the last two away games for Comunicaciones, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.
Comunicaciones go into this game after a win, the home game against Cotzumalguapa that ended 2-0. A 1-1 draw at Iztapa's stadium before that.
2 goals so far away for Comunicaciones, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 2. All from 2 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Malacateco three wins, zero draws and Comunicaciones seven victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Malacateco missing players
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| Malacateco | Comunicaciones | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 75% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.5 | 1.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | 25 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 22 | 31 |
| 11 | 7 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 6 | 8 |
| 45% | 43% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 100% |
- Comunicaciones has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Liga Nacional
- Comunicaciones has the most dropped points from leading position (4) in Liga Nacional
- Comunicaciones has the most scored goals (8) in Liga Nacional
- Comunicaciones has the most scored goals in the first half (6) in Liga Nacional
- Comunicaciones has the the best goal difference (+4) in Liga Nacional
- Comunicaciones is in the best form (2-2-0)
- Malacateco has the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in Liga Nacional
- Malacateco has the most conceded goals (7) in Liga Nacional
- Malacateco has the most conceded goals in the first half (6) in Liga Nacional
- Malacateco has the most matches over the total-line (3) in Liga Nacional
| Malacateco | Last season | Comunicaciones | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 35 | 18 | Played | P | 19 | 39 | ||
| 12 | 11 | Won | W | 9 | 21 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 6 | 10 | ||
| 15 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 8 | ||
| 38 | 32 | Scored | S | 32 | 64 | ||
| 38 | 15 | Conceded | C | 23 | 41 | ||
| 89% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 89% | 95% | ||
| 54% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 67% | ||
| 40% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 63% | 54% | ||
| 20% | 28% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 33% | ||
| 9% | 11% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 11% | 13% | ||
| 31% | 39% | BTTS | BTTS | 68% | 56% | ||
| 34% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 26% | 33% | ||
| 46% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 16% | 15% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.1 | 2.8 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 8 | ||
| 396 | 267 | Total Shots | T S | 130 | 318 | ||
| 194 | 139 | Shots on Target | S O | 51 | 126 | ||
| 20% | 23% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 61% | 50% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Comunicaciones | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 2 | Xelaju | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 3 | Iztapa | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | Antigua GFC | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 | Malacateco | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 4 |
| 6 | Cotzumalguapa | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -3 | 3 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Comunicaciones | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 26 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 28 |
| 2 | Municipal | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 23 |
| 3 | Guastatoya | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 21 |
| 4 | Iztapa | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 20 |
| 5 | Antigua GFC | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 19 |
| 6 | Deportivo Sanarate | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 18 |
| 7 | Siquinala | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 16 |
| 8 | Cotzumalguapa | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 | -5 | 15 |
| 9 | Xelaju | 13 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -3 | 13 |
| 10 | Malacateco | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -5 | 13 |
| 11 | Mixco | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 11 | -4 | 12 |
| 12 | Coban Imperial | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 9 | -7 | 10 |